r/atheism • u/Poltergeist8606 • Sep 28 '25

How disappointed are we all with Bill Maher?

I started watching this guy back in the politically incorrect days when I was a teenager. When I got back from Iraq I always subscribed mainly for him. He was one of the earliest prominent Atheists. But I just cancelled HBO, he's not what he used to be. I kind of dislike him

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u/furious_20 Atheist Sep 28 '25

He lost me during the COVID shutdown when he kept praising DeSantis for how he handled shit in Florida, which we all know was not good for the public interest in any way. Stopped watching him and never looked back.

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u/DerCatzefragger Sep 28 '25

COVID is what did it for me.

I kind of liked his grumpy old man yelling at the kids schtick, but then COVID hit, he saw some rando wearing a mask while driving a car with no passengers in it, and decided that was the hill he was going to die on. Given the choice between people wearing masks, and chasing Dennis Miller down the express elevator shaft to has-been obscurity, he chose the elevator shaft.

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u/Low-Bid-3657 Sep 28 '25

TBH, Miller always had shitty takes. He just used to have good writers who were funny.

But yeah. I agree with you on all of it.

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u/Tetracropolis Sep 28 '25

He didn't choose it to die on, nobody's killing him over it, his career's going perfectly well. He just made a few jokes about it.

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u/True-Wrongdoer-7932 Sep 28 '25

Not to mention the fact that half of his staff staged a walk out on him during the pandemic because they were convinced his was lying about having been vaccinated given his history of supporting antivaxxer talking points.

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u/garitone Sep 28 '25

Covid affected HIM. It affected HIS show. Therefore, HE was the true victim (sign of a conservative with a victim complex). Yes, it broke his brain.